PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VAZGEN MANUKIAN SUPPORTS IDEA ON CONDUCTING EXIT POLL DURING 2008 ELECTIONS

Noyan Tapan
Dec 13, 2007

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 13, NOYAN TAPAN. The conducting of an exit poll
survey in Armenia, which is under a totalitarian regime and where
many citizens are afraid, is not justified. This information was
provided to a Noyan Tapan correpondent by Hovhannes Hovhannisian,
the Chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party of Armenia.

And Vazgen Manukian, the Chairman of the National Democratic Union,
believes that the conducting of a similar survey would prove expedient
in Armenia.

"There is no need to conduct an exit poll in democratic countries. Such
seurveys are necessary to be carried out in such countries as ours,"
he declared.

In the words of Alexander Iskandarian, the Director of the Caucasian
Media Institute, an exit poll is being conducted throughout the world,
including the African countries. "The thing is not that whether people
are afraid or not, but the fact of how technically and technologically
correctly that survey is being conducted," Alexander Iskandarian
declared, mentioning that there are specialists in Armenia, who are
able to organize the conducting of that survey at a professional level.

It should be mentioned that after the ballot ceremony of the 2008
presidential elections the government of the United States of America
came up with a suggestion on conducting a similar survey. Serge
Sargsian, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, whose
candidature has been put forward by the Republican Party of Armenia,
has agreed to the conducting of an exit poll during the presidential
elections.